Overview of the Nx Remix Plugin

The Nx Plugin for Remix contains executors, generators, and utilities for managing Remix applications and libraries within an Nx workspace. It provides:

Integration with libraries such as Storybook, Jest, Vitest, Playwright and Cypress.
Generators to help scaffold code quickly, including:
- Libraries, both internal to your codebase and publishable to npm
- Routes
- Loaders
- Actions
- Meta
Utilities for automatic workspace refactoring.

Setting up @nx/remix

Installation

In any Nx workspace, you can install @nx/remix by running the following command:

nx add @nx/remix

This will install the correct version of @nx/remix.

How @nx/remix Infers Tasks

The @nx/remix plugin will create a task for any project that has a Remix configuration file present. Any of the following files will be recognized as a Remix configuration file:

remix.config.js
remix.config.mjs
remix.config.cjs

View Inferred Tasks

To view inferred tasks for a project, open the project details view in Nx Console or run nx show project my-project --web in the command line.

@nx/remix Configuration

The @nx/remix/plugin is configured in the plugins array in nx.json.

{
  "plugins": [
    {
      "plugin": "@nx/remix/plugin",
      "options": {
        "buildTargetName": "build",
        "devTargetName": "dev",
        "startTargetName": "start",
        "typecheckTargetName": "typecheck"
      }
    }
  ]
}

The buildTargetName, devTargetName, startTargetName and typecheckTargetName options control the names of the inferred Remix tasks. The default names are build, dev, start and typecheck.

Using the Remix Plugin

Generate a Remix Application

NX  Generating @nx/remix:application

✔ What unit test runner should be used? · vitest
✔ Which E2E test runner would you like to use? · playwright

UPDATE package.json
UPDATE nx.json
CREATE apps/myapp/project.json
CREATE apps/myapp/README.md
CREATE apps/myapp/app/nx-welcome.tsx
CREATE apps/myapp/app/root.tsx
CREATE apps/myapp/app/routes/_index.tsx
CREATE apps/myapp/public/favicon.ico
CREATE apps/myapp/remix.config.js
CREATE apps/myapp/remix.env.d.ts
CREATE apps/myapp/tests/routes/_index.spec.tsx
CREATE apps/myapp/tsconfig.app.json
CREATE apps/myapp/tsconfig.json
CREATE apps/myapp/.gitignore
CREATE apps/myapp/package.json
CREATE apps/myapp/tsconfig.spec.json
CREATE apps/myapp/vitest.config.ts
CREATE apps/myapp/test-setup.ts
CREATE apps/myapp/.eslintrc.json
CREATE apps/myapp/.eslintignore
CREATE apps/myapp-e2e/project.json
CREATE apps/myapp-e2e/src/example.spec.ts
CREATE apps/myapp-e2e/playwright.config.ts
CREATE apps/myapp-e2e/tsconfig.json
CREATE apps/myapp-e2e/.eslintrc.json

Build, Serve and Test your Application

To build your application run:

> nx run myapp:build

Building Remix app in production mode...

Built in 857ms

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NX   Successfully ran target build for project myapp (3s)

To serve your application for use during development run:

> nx run myapp:dev

> remix dev --manual

💿  remix dev

info  building...
info  built (388ms)
[remix-serve] http://localhost:3000 (http://192.168.0.12:3000)

To test the application using vitest run:

> nx run myapp:test

> vitest


 RUN  v1.6.0 /Users/columferry/dev/nrwl/issues/gh_issues/nx26943/apps/myapp

 ✓ tests/routes/_index.spec.tsx (1)
   ✓ renders loader data

 Test Files  1 passed (1)
      Tests  1 passed (1)
   Start at  13:22:54
   Duration  533ms (transform 47ms, setup 68ms, collect 123ms, tests 36ms, environment 204ms, prepare 35ms)


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 NX   Successfully ran target test for project myapp (950ms)

Generating an Nx Library

When developing your application, it often makes sense to split your codebase into smaller more focused libraries.

To generate a library to use in your Remix application run:

NX  Generating @nx/remix:library

✔ What test runner should be used? · vitest
UPDATE nx.json
UPDATE package.json
CREATE babel.config.json
CREATE libs/login/project.json
CREATE libs/login/.eslintrc.json
CREATE libs/login/README.md
CREATE libs/login/src/index.ts
CREATE libs/login/tsconfig.lib.json
CREATE libs/login/tsconfig.json
CREATE libs/login/vite.config.ts
CREATE libs/login/tsconfig.spec.json
CREATE libs/login/src/lib/login.module.css
CREATE libs/login/src/lib/login.spec.tsx
CREATE libs/login/src/lib/login.tsx
UPDATE tsconfig.base.json
CREATE libs/login/src/test-setup.ts
CREATE libs/login/src/server.ts

You can then use the library by importing one of the exports into your application:

apps/myapp/app/routes/index.tsx

import { Login } from '@acme/login';

export default function Index() {
  return (
    <div>
      <Login />
    </div>
  );
}

You can also run test on your library:

nx test login

Generating a Route

To generate a route for your application:

NX  Generating @nx/remix:route

CREATE apps/myapp/app/routes/admin.tsx
CREATE apps/myapp/app/styles/admin.css

Using a loader from your Library

To use a Route Loader where the logic lives in your library, follow the steps below.

Generate a loader for your route:

NX  Generating @nx/remix:loader

UPDATE apps/myapp/app/routes/admin.tsx

Add a new file in your login lib

libs/login/src/lib/admin/admin.loader.ts

import { json, LoaderFunctionArgs } from '@remix-run/node';

export const adminLoader = async ({ request }: LoaderFunctionArgs) => {
  return json({
    message: 'Hello, world!',
  });
};

Export the function from the libs/login/src/server.ts file:

export * from './lib/admin/admin.loader';

Use the loader in your apps/myapp/app/routes/admin.tsx

Replace the default loader code:

export const loader = async ({ request }: LoaderFunctionArgs) => {
  return json({
    message: 'Hello, world!',
  });
};

with

import { adminLoader } from '@acme/login/server';

export const loader = adminLoader;

GitHub Repository with Example

You can see an example of an Nx Workspace using Remix by clicking below.

Example repository/nrwl/nx-recipes/tree/main/remix